Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they… — Jodi Picoult
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something… — David Foster Wallace
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those… — Anais Nin
Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my… — Carl Sandburg
...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share. — Susan Howatch
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for… — Haruki Murakami
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene.… — Leo Buscaglia
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst. — Tom Perrotta
All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by… — W. Somerset Maugham
Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.… — Saul Williams
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken… — William Carlos Williams
Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's… — Chuck Klosterman
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was… — Sherwood Anderson
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! — Dr. Seuss
For it must be very lonely being dead. — Diane Setterfield
Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he… — Isaac Asimov
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache. — Pablo Neruda
All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been… — Betty Smith
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may… — Maya Angelou
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to… — Harriet Lerner

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